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POGKBT FOR BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES.

No. 327,729. Patented Oct. 6, 1885.

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DAVID IV. SEELY, OF ELMIRA, NEV YORK.

POCKET FOR BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,729, dated October 6,1885.

Application filed October 27, 1884.

T 0 coZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID \V. SEELY, of Elmira, in the county of Ohemung and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Billiard and Pool Table Pockets,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a double pocket or a single pocket extended to form two coinpartments therein for billiard and pool tables, constructed so as to receive and hold the bill iard-balls and chalk in each pocket separately; also,in the manner of uniting the blank forming the body of the upper or ball pocket to a ring forming the bottom thereof; also, in an opening or passage-way between the upper or ball pocket and the lower or chalk pocket, of such dimensions as to retain the balls in the upper pocket and to permit the chalk to pass through into the lower pocket, as described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pocket complete, showing the two compartments therein, an upper and a lower one. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the blank with alternate strips and notches prepared to be formed into a pocket. Fig. 4 is a cross-section through line a: or of Fig. 1.

A in the accompanying drawings rep resents the blank for the body of the pocket, made of any suitable materialleather preferredits lower side being formed into alternate strips B and spaces 0 for the purpose of contracting and shaping the pocket, and to secure the ends of the strips over a ring, D, forming the bottom of the upper or ball pocket, A. By thus forming the lower side of the body A alternat ily into strips B and spaces 0 the lower end of the pocket may be contracted or shaped over the ring D, and presents a smooth, symmetrical appearance, as in Fig. 1, and also to provide a seat to receive balls, as hereinafter described, and to cover the ring, so as to leave sufficient space between each of the strips in which to loop the additional lower or chalk pocket E, over and to the ring, as shown.

The blank A having been prepared, the

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ends I of the strips B are brought outside of the ring D and folded over and around it, so as to extend a distance upward on its inside.

After the ends I of the strips are stitched to- 5 gether over the ring Dthe two edges of the sides of the blankAare stitched or united, thus completing the upper or ball pocket, A,

as shown in Fig. 1.

Openings H are provided on the upper edge of the pocket by which to attach it to the table in the usual manner.

In order to provide a receptacle for the chalk in this pocket separate from the balls, an extension or additional pocket, E, is added thereto below the ring D, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In this construction the additional or lower pocket, E, for the chalk consists of a net with its upper edge looped into the spaces between the strips B over gathered at its lower end, so that two connecting pockets are formed. the upper pocket to receive and hold the balls above the ring, and a lower pocket to receive and hold the chalk below the ring,the chalk passing through 7 the ring to enter the lower pocket, and the ring retaining the ball in the upper pocket resting upon the rim formed by the ends I of the strips.

In Fig. lines and resting upon the seat formed by the ends I of the strips B above the ring D, and the chalk in perspective in the lower or sup plementary pocket below the ring.

Having thus described my invention, what i I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A pocket for billiard and pool tables, consisting of an upper pocket to receive and hold the balls, and an additional connecting lower pocket to receive and hold the chalk, substantially as described.

2. In a pocket for billiard and pool tables, the upper pocket, A, lower pocket, E, and connecting-channel J, through which channel the chalk is to pass from the upper to the lower pocket, and the balls to be retained in the upper pocket separately, as shown.

DAVID W. SEELY.

Witnesses:

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